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Two distinct superfamilies of PGT enzymes, denoted as polytopic and monotopic, carry out this reaction but show striking differences in structure and mechanism. With the goal of creating non-hydrolyzable mimics (UBP-sugars) of the UDP-sugar substrates as chemical probes to interrogate critical aspects of these essential enzymes, we designed and synthesized a series of uridine bisphosphonates (UBPs), wherein the diphosphate bridging oxygen of the UDP and UDP-sugar is replaced by a substituted methylene group (CXY; X\/Y = F\/F, Cl\/Cl, (\n                  <jats:italic>S<\/jats:italic>\n                  )-H\/F, (\n                  <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                  )-H\/F, H\/H, CH\n                  <jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>\n                  \/CH\n                  <jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>\n                  ). These compounds, which incorporated as the conjugating sugar an\n                  <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                  -acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) substituent at the \u03b2-phosphonate, were evaluated as inhibitors of a representative polytopic PGT (WecA from\n                  <jats:italic>Thermotoga maritima<\/jats:italic>\n                  ) and a monotopic PGT (PglC from\n                  <jats:italic>Campylobacter jejuni<\/jats:italic>\n                  ). Although CHF-BP most closely mimics pyrophosphate with respect to its acid\/base properties, the less basic CF\n                  <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                  -BP conjugate most strongly inhibited PglC, whereas the more basic CH\n                  <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                  -BP analogue was the strongest inhibitor of WecA. These surprising differences indicate different modes of ligand binding for the different PGT superfamilies implicating a modified P\u2013O\n                  <jats:sup>\u2212<\/jats:sup>\n                  interaction with the structural Mg\n                  <jats:sup>2+<\/jats:sup>\n                  , consistent with their catalytic divergence. Furthermore, at least for the monoPGT superfamily example, this was not the sole determinant of ligand binding: the two diastereomeric CHF-BP conjugates, which feature a chiral center at the P\n                  <jats:sub>\u03b1<\/jats:sub>\n                  -CHF-P\n                  <jats:sub>\u03b2<\/jats:sub>\n                  carbon, exhibited strikingly different binding affinities and the inclusion of GlcNAc with the native \u03b1-anomer configuration significantly improved binding affinity. UBP-sugars are a valuable tool for elucidating the structures and mechanisms of the distinct PGT superfamilies and offer a promising scaffold to develop novel antibiotic agents for the exclusively prokaryotic monoPGT superfamily.\n                <\/jats:p>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>TABLE OF CONTENTS GRAPHIC<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:fig id=\"ufig1\" position=\"float\" fig-type=\"figure\" orientation=\"portrait\">\n                    <jats:graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"558431v1_ufig1\" position=\"float\" orientation=\"portrait\"\/>\n                  <\/jats:fig>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/2023.09.19.558431","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,20]],"date-time":"2023-09-20T00:20:16Z","timestamp":1695169216000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Uridine Bisphosphonates Differentiate Phosphoglycosyl Transferase Superfamilies"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8890-8985","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leah M.","family":"Seebald","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0181-8958","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pouya","family":"Haratipour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-6063-5010","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michaela R.","family":"Jacobs","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0871-0376","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hannah M.","family":"Bernstein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7175-9960","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Boris A.","family":"Kashemirov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3540-6663","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Charles E.","family":"McKenna","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5749-7869","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Barbara","family":"Imperiali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/cr990297n"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/glycob\/cwx064"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0507311102"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1042\/BST20200762"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.5","first-page":"1","article-title":"Monotopic membrane proteins join the fold","volume":"44","year":"2018","journal-title":"Trends Biochem Sci"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1128\/JB.00676-08"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1074\/jbc.M314165200"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.biochi.2016.06.005"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1703397114"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.biochem.5b01086"},{"key":"2023092211350851000_2023.09.19.558431v1.11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"O\u2019Toole, K. 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